As well as: - Finalist for Oregon Book Award (Linda Sue Park is the judge!)- Chosen for St. Louis Book Battle- Chosen for One Book, One Community in Olney, Illinois- Chosen as a Cafe Book in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania and Stafford schools and the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Virginia

I am stunned to hear that this truly LITERARY novel was turned down!!!! I read a lot of YA and occasionally will try a contemporary....and "Girl Stolen" is in a class of its own! It is brilliant, strongly-written, has an insanely cool ending....it's really one of the best YA novels of its time.